Comment 4 for bug 1451086

This looks like it may not be a bug after all.

Not that it matters either way because all the developers/bug subscribers have buggered off. Don't you love the way you do that? You come on here to do your bit by reporting bugs and lobbying for bugs to get fixed. And you rarely get any word of reply. Then when the developers decide there's nothing in your report, they just bugger off.

For what it's worth, for the sake of any lost soul who is unfortunate enough to land up in this god-foresaken dead-end of the internet, and to be so dreadfully lost to have read down this page to these very words (may God save your soul), I'll just say that I checked this bug again today, and ScanImage recognised the scanner fine.

(But that isn't what happened before! It failed to recognise the scanner when the system could see it was there - and this happened repeatedly! - So I reported a bug!

And what usually happens when you report a bug?

Nothing!

You get no communication in return from the developers - people clearly so oh-so-dreadfully important that they dare not taint the purity of their intellects by deigning to converse directly with the plebs who use their hobby software. Oh what a dread thought!

Oh they might come on with some terse request for more info. But you get no report on what's happening, no insight into what's being done, what challenges addressed, what has happened with the bug, what's become of it when they all bugger off, where they've buggered off too.

You have to wonder if they even talk about these things amongst themselves. Perhaps they are like some form of sentient root vegetable genetically engineered to produce slightly dicky knock-off software but without any chit chat. They communicate by ESP - of course! Then when they see that some chicken pat user has filed come to some low-IQ conculsions about some idiosyncasy of the software being a bug -- duh! -- they all just bugger off in unison.... without.uttering.a.single.word.

Really though, they don't bugger off. That's just my plebby interpretation. What they really do is *glide* off, like in retreat, back into the white mist from whence they came.)

 If you've read this far, fellow loser, fellow flatline-brain-wave, fellow of indiscernible fortune, then take consolation here in two things. You are not alone! There are at least two of us. (I do dearly hope there are atleast two of us). But more! You are not so utterly devoid of hope that you have been unable to continue reading. Take hope then. And get out of here! If you move quickly enough you might be able to sniffel after the footprints of the ubermenschen, and give them the sort of attention they like.